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Lymy continues its series of monthly Aperitivo nights. We gather once a month to meet each other and enjoy some drinks and interesting conversation. Start your weekend with us at Lymy! Cash is queen. ♥

Pink & Black Helsinki is a queer anarchist collective, active mostly in Helsinki. We organize in the crossroads of trans rights and other LGBTI issues, feminisms, and horizontal, anti-capitalist politics.

Welcome to Lymy on Friday June 8 at 6 pm to hear about Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief (AK Press, 2017) from the editor of the book Cindy Milstein. After the presentation, we will continue the evening in Lymy! Bring cash for books and drinks. The event is in English.

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“Rebellious Mourning uncovers the destruction of life that capitalist development leaves in its trail. But it is also witness to the power of grief as a catalyst to collective resistance.”—Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch

We can bear almost anything when it is worked through collectively. Grief is generally thought of as something personal and insular, but when we publicly share loss and pain, we lessen the power of the forces that debilitate us, while at the same time building the humane social practices that alleviate suffering and improve quality of life for everyone. Addressing tragedies from Fukushima to Palestine, incarceration to eviction, AIDS crises to border crossings, and racism to rape, the intimate yet tenacious writing in this volume shows that mourning can pry open spaces of contestation and reconstruction, empathy and solidarity.

Cindy Milstein is the author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations, co-author of Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism, and editor of the anthology Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism.

Accessibility info for Lymy:
The space is not wheelchair accessible, there are steps leading (downwards) into the space and three steps up to the restroom. We ask that everyone who enters the space not assume consent for anything from anyone, including being photographed.

Lymy and Yhdessä Rojavan Puolesta will be hosting a photo exhibition from 17-18.5. of photographs taken by Azad Ramazan over the last six months. The northern part of Syria known as the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria is a part of the long war being waged in Syria. The area is the center of the so-called Rojava Revolution that follows principles of democracy, feminism, antifascism and self-defense. In Ramazan’s own words:

“I felt the need to go to Syria to fight for people torn apart by cultural genocide, a land that has long been a theater of war.
Man has reduced the environment to a fragile space where life has lost value, but democratic civilization resists and tries to bring stability back.
The strength of the people is observable by the energy of the martyrs released in the struggle, so Martyrs Don’t Die.
The motto that most resonates among the Kurdish people, and also poured into the Arabs, is “Resistance is Life”.
I wanted to take part in the revolution and defend it by any means necessary and if we want to reconquer something we must begin to regain the sense of our position. The women understood this.

The project was carried out in Northern Syria, between a Kurdish-populated area called Rojava (bordering Turkey) and in the (Arab) province of Deir Ezzor, with its desert and the Euphrates bank. The photos and videos were taken between October 2017 and March 2018, during the Syrian Civil War, particularly on the front where the Syrian Democratic Forces are fighting the Islamic State still.”

Good Morning Syria * Moments of War will be in Lymy from 17-18.5.17.5 from 14-19 and 18.5 from 12-17.

Accessibility info:
The space is not wheelchair accessible, there are steps leading (downwards) into the space and three steps up to the toilet. The toilet is quite small, the door to the space and to the toilet are quite narrow. We ask that everyone who enters the space not assume consent for anything from anyone, including being photographed.

As many of you have noticed, Lymy has undergone some changes during the fall of 2017, the biggest is our new space and address! We want to invite you to celebrate the new space with us on Friday 19.1.2018 at 18.00. We will also talk a little about plans and what will be going on at Lymy this winter and spring.

Some snacks and beverages will be served, please bring cash!

C U
xoxo
Lymy

Accessibility info:
Unfortunately the space is not wheelchair accessible, there are steps leading (downwards) into the space and three steps up to the toilet. The toilet is quite small, the door to the space and to the toilet are quite narrow.

We are sorry about this and will be looking into making the space more accessible, so tips are welcome!

We ask that everyone who enters the space not assume consent for anything from anyone, including being photographed.

The Rojava revolution is celebrating 5 years in the summer of 2017. The democratic confederalism of Northern Syria is based on the main values of direct democracy, ecology and women’s liberation. The exhibition will look into the role of women in the revolution and the rebuilding of everyday life through videos.

The exhibition is open on Wednesday and Thursday from 2pm to 7 pm. The opening is on Tuesday from 8pm-22pm.

Lymy’s accesibility info: In the main entrance there are two stairs. If you need a stairless access, there is a back entrance to the space through the stairway. There is a 5cm threshold in the stairway entrance. This entrance only opens from the inside. The toilet in the space is small, and unfortunately not accessible for a wheelchair. There is a public toilet some hundred meters away, at the Väinö Tanner -field.

PPS. We’ll also be selling the Kuinka tuli sytytetään -pamphlet for 4€.

Accessibility info:
Lymy is wheelchair and stroller accessible through the side door, ask someone to guide you in. The closest wheelchair accessible restroom is a public restroom next to the Haapaniemi football field. We ask that everyone who enters the space not assume consent for anything from anyone, including being photographed.